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Sunday, June 9, 2013

"Readers mourning the end of the Artemis Fowl series can take heart: this first book in the time-bending W.A.R.P. series is an all-out blast." --Publishers Weekly

Riley, a teen orphan boy living in
Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert
Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses
his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims' dwellings. On one
such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges
him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit
the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from
the future, part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program
(WARP) Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day
London, followed closely by Garrick.

In modern London, Riley is helped by Chevron Savano, a
nineteen-year-old FBI agent sent to London as punishment after a
disastrous undercover, anti-terrorist operation in Los Angeles. Together
Riley and Chevie must evade Garrick, who has been fundamentally altered
by his trip through the wormhole. Garrick is now not only evil, but he
also possesses all of the scientist's knowledge. He is determined to
track Riley down and use the timekey in Chevie's possession to make his
way back to Victorian London where he can literally change the world.